If you spend time in the Lipscomb administration office, studied abroad recently or have a passion for fashion, you know Alisha Robinson.
Robinson is a Lipscomb Senior from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada who is double-majoring in Textiles and Apparel and Fashion Merchandising.
It may be a long title, but clothing and textiles studies involve more than just designing clothing. Students also learn how to create a product that consumers will want to purchase. Plus they learn how clothing is designed, created, advertised and sold.
“I spend a lot of my time sewing and doing crafty things,” Robinson said.
She is focused on costume design and has dreams of winning an Oscar one day for costume design in a movie.
“I enjoy the creativity and I enjoy people being able to reflect their personalities through clothing,” Robinson said. “I buy the majority of my clothes from the thrift store and I sew them or change them to fit me or to be something different.”
Robinson says Canadians are a bit different than the United States when it comes to fashion sense. And though she doesn’t consider herself a fashionable person, she does have some fashion advice for Lipscomb students.
“The guys who wear the sunglasses with the elastic strap on the back drive me crazy,” Robinson said. “Camo is never a good fashion pattern. If you’re out hunting, that makes sense. If you’re walking on campus, that doesn’t make sense. There’s nothing to hunt.”
Guys who wear short pastel shorts and girls who wear heels to class are also a fashion “no-no” for Robinson. The future fashion merchandiser urges students to wear what is practical to class.
“You just have to wear what fits right and what’s appropriate for the setting,” Robinson said.
Robinson graduates this spring and plans on going to graduate school for Fine Arts and Costume Design.